William Shakespeare, King Lear
18 quotes
"This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt."
"Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft."
"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."
"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!"
"But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead."
"Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor."
"Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some."
"Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score."
"All dark and comfortless."
"An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!"
"GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity."
"Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art."
"When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes."
"The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious."
"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear"
"Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
"I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love."